[Interrelations between obesity in pregnancy and fetal weight and their correlations with other perinatal risk factors].

This study involved 16 newborns of mothers with excessive body weight and 108 newborns with increased birth weight. Increased weights of the mothers and newborns as perinatal risk factors (RF) were compared with each other and further 31 RF in a total population of 1119 newborns. Maternal obesity correlated with increased birth weight. Further associations of perinatal RF included toxemia of pregnancy, cesarean delivery, contracted pelvis, and neonatal hypoglycemia.